Best MS Dev Podcasts (2024)

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How Simple is as Simple as Possible with Mark Rendle 1:01:00

2h ago1:01:00

1:01:00

How simple can you make software development? Carl and Richard talk to Mark Rendle about his focus on simplicity in building software - as simple as possible. Mark talks about the tendency of developers, sometimes through no fault of their own, to use what is new and cool in development, regardless of how practical or necessary it actually is. The …

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Asymmetric Encryption with Eli Holderness 38:35

2h ago38:35

38:35

Do you know how asymmetric encryption works? While at the Kansas City Developers Conference, Richard sat down with Eli Holderness to discuss many of the encryption technologies being used today—and the new options coming in the future! Eli talks about how symmetrical encryption and public key encryption have been the focus of modern encryption, esp…

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Making Design Pay with Billy Hollis 1:06:00

7d ago1:06:00

1:06:00

How does good design pay off in software? Carl and Richard talk to Billy Hollis about his work designing software, both from a user interaction perspective and application architecture. Billy talks about saving time and money by working hard on design to get a clearer picture of what stakeholders want—because code rework is always more expensive! T…

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Microsoft 365 and PowerShell with Tony Redmond 38:01

2d ago38:01

38:01

What can you do to Microsoft 365 with PowerShell? Turns out - almost anything! Richard talks to Tony Redmond about his ongoing efforts to educate sysadmins about the vast array of capabilities in M365, including all the PowerShell cmdlets that can let you retrieve and control everything in M365. There's now so much information that Tony and his tea…

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Episode 167 - Let's Troubleshoot SQL AG Synchronization Latency 37:40

4d ago37:40

37:40

Fair warning for all listeners! Before starting to listen to this podcast, very strongly recommended: Have the diagram at the bottom of this page ready in front of you, so that it'll be easier for you to follow along: Common Causes and Troubleshooting Solutions for SQL AG Data Synchronization Latency - Microsoft Community Hub (sorry in advance!) Ad…

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Remote Mob Programming with Ulrika Malmgren 50:43

9d ago50:43

50:43

Can you do mob programming remotely? Carl and Richard talk to Ulrika Malmgren about mob, or team programming - where three to five developers work together on the same problem, rotating keyboard control and collaborating to write the best possible code. Modern tools like Teams and Zoom make it easy to do the same programming style with everyone rem…

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Evolving Generative AI with Alison Cossette 38:00

9d ago38:00

38:00

How is generative AI evolving, and what can we do about it? While at NDC in Oslo, Richard chatted with Alison Cossette about her work as a data scientist before the ChatGPT explosion in November 2022 and what life has been like since the LLM came to town. Alison talks about the rigor of building AI models using generative AI before ChatGPT and how …

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Machine Learning on Geospatial Data with Malte Loller-Anderson & Mathilde Ørstavik 54:00

15d ago54:00

54:00

What can machine learning do for geospatial data? Carl and Richard talk to Malte Loller-Anderson and Mathilde Ørstavik about their work at Norkart, using aerial imagery to build detailed maps around Norway. Mathilde dives into the critical role of machine learning - identifying buildings in images. Usually done by hand with each new image, Norkart …

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The Security Risks of AI with Steve Poole 34:16

16d ago34:16

34:16

Leadership wants to get on the AI bandwagon - what are the security risks? While at the Kansas City Developers Conference, Richard sat down with Steve Poole to talk about his experiences helping companies manage the risk of bringing AI into the company. Steve talks about the impact of introducing a new development stack, especially open-source stac…

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Domain Driven Design and Event Sourcing with Anita Kvamme 55:00

23d ago55:00

55:00

What do Domain-Driven Design and event sourcing have to do with each other? Everything! Carl and Richard chat with Anita Kvamme about her experiences applying DDD, and specifically event storming, to developing applications using event sourcing. Anita talks about building applications that have many sources of events—from users and elsewhere—and ne…

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Threat Modeling in the Cloud with Romina Druta & Daniela Cruzes 36:24

23d ago36:24

36:24

What are the threats your cloud application and infrastructure are facing? While at NDC Oslo, Richard chatted with Daniela Cruzes and Romina Druta about their work building threat models for cloud-based applications. Daniela discusses how modeling helps to understand security concerns before applications are deployed and attacked - often, security …

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Walk the Walk ('Uncovering' Treadmill Secrets) 15:49

26d ago15:49

15:49

Here is what you will learn in today's episode: 1. The difference between using the treadmill and outdoor activity 2. How to execute the following: •A proper treadmill warm up •A pyramid (or ramp up and down) program •A fast flat program •A random program •A walk/jog program 3. You will learn some tips about how to execute increasing treadmill spee…

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Low-Code Solutions for .NET Developers with Serge Sarafudinov 58:32

1M ago58:32

58:32

How can a low-code solution help you deliver a .NET app? Carl and Richard talk with Serge Sarafudinov about his Xomega project. Serge describes how Xomega uses models and templates to generate .NET code for applications for Blazor clients, WPF, and even ASP.NET Forms and TypeScript! The conversation also digs into rehabilitating existing .NET appli…

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Implementing Passkeys with Tarek Dawoud 39:15

1M ago39:15

39:15

Are you ready for passkeys? Richard talks to Tarek Dawoud from Microsoft about the evolution of passwordless access with passkeys. Tarek talks about the FIDO alliance and the ongoing effort to create authentication strategies that are mathematically impossible to phish - no password stuffing under the covers that might get exploited by a man-in-the…

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Episode 166 - DR Planning for SQL Server and Loading Large CSV Files 35:32

1M ago35:32

35:32

Guy and Eitan discuss the recent CrowdStrike incident and what it would mean for DBAs, and discuss options to load huge CSV files into SQL Server as fast as possible. Relevant links: 101 of Troubleshooting SQL Server on Linux - Microsoft Community Hub bcp utility - SQL Server | Microsoft Learn Altering lock escalation for SQL Server tables (mssqlti…

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Azure API Management's GenAI Gateway with Andrei Kamenev 51:00

1M ago51:00

51:00

How do you manage APIs to GenAI, and how can GenAI help with API management? Carl and Richard chat with Andrei Kamenev about the latest features coming to Azure API Management. On the one hand, there are Copilot tools to help craft and understand APIM policies, which can get very complex. Then, there is the provisioning of access to GenAI-related A…

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Optimizing Cloud Recovery Costs with Natalie Serebryakova 39:06

1M ago39:06

39:06

What does it cost to recover from a disaster? While at NDC Oslo, Richard chatted with Natalie Serebryakova about her work helping companies understand their disaster recovery costs and what that process can teach you about your infrastructure. Natalie talks about different types of disasters, from the deletion of a production server to a major outa…

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Getting into Containers using Aspire with Jiachen Jiang 54:40

2M ago54:40

54:40

How can .NET Aspire help you get into containers? Carl and Richard talk with Jiachen Jiang about her experiences working with .NET Aspire. Jiachen talks about the power of .NET Aspire to help lead developers to utilize cloud native architecture efficiently. A key part of the equation is containers, and Jiachen talks about how relatively rare contai…

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Getting into Containers using Aspire with Jiachen Jiang 55:00

2M ago55:00

55:00

How can .NET Aspire help you get into containers? Carl and Richard talk with Jiachen Jiang about her experiences working with .NET Aspire. Jiachen talks about the power of .NET Aspire to help lead developers to utilize cloud native architecture efficiently. A key part of the equation is containers, and Jiachen talks about how relatively rare contai…

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Microsoft Cloud PKI with Richard Hicks 44:31

1M ago44:31

44:31

Ready to move your device certificate authority to the cloud? Richard chats with Richard Hicks about Microsoft Cloud PKI - certificate management for devices and people as part of the Intune Suite. Richard talks about it being early days for Cloud PKI, so not everything you want is there yet. The only way to get a certificate onto a device is throu…

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Building Domain-Specific Copilots with Vishwas Lele 50:00

2M ago50:00

50:00

What if you want to build your own copilot? Carl and Richard talk to Vishwas Lele about his new startup, which is focused on using Azure OpenAI tools to help automate the government RFP writing process. Vishwas discusses the complexities of proposal writing, how specific and complex rules exist for each part of the proposal, and the challenge of ge…

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Data Risk Management using Purview with Joanne Klein 36:55

2M ago36:55

36:55

How are you protecting your organization's data? Richard chats with Joanne Klein about her work with Microsoft Purview to help with data protection, management, and governance. Joanne talks about a spike in data protection concerns from Microsoft Copilot - if you have been securing data through obscurity, you're in for a nasty surprise! Copilot has…

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Basic UX for Developers with Hilary Stohs-Krause 55:30

2M ago55:30

55:30

What are the basics of building a decent user interface on a web page? Carl and Richard talk to Hilary Stohs-Krause about her experience helping folks build websites - you don't have to be a designer to make something useable! Hilary talks about steering clear of more complex UX libraries unless you know the site owner prefers them. Keeping things …

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The Power of Data in the Cloud with Arun Ulag 36:37

2M ago36:37

36:37

How has the cloud transformed the way we work with data? While at Build in Seattle, Richard sat down with Arun Ulag, Microsoft CVP of Azure Data, to discuss how the cloud has transformed how we work with data. The pre-cloud practice of extract-transform-and-load into OLAP cubes has given way to the data lake - you don't need to pre-process data if …

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WPF Update with Joseph Finney 59:56

2M ago59:56

59:56

What's happening with WPF? Carl and Richard talk to Joseph Finney about the news from Build about WPF - it's back, baby! But did it ever go away? Joe talks about how WPF was made open source in 2018 and how minimal development was done there - enough so that the community started building frameworks to support it, including WPFUI and ModernWPF. But…

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The Hardware of Azure with Rani Borkar 34:08

2M ago34:08

34:08

What hardware runs Azure today and into the future? While at Build in Seattle, Richard sat down with Rani Borkar to discuss the hardware that makes up Azure Compute, including examples of the new Cobalt and Maia processors! Rani talks about Cobalt first, Microsoft's ARM processor designed for workloads in the cloud. Then, a look at the Maia process…

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Episode 165 - News in Azure SQL and Woes of Excel 38:44

2M ago38:44

38:44

Guy and Eitan discuss some important and interesting news from Microsoft about SQL Server, Straight Path Solutions publish 30 articles about SQL Server security checks, Guy talks about his experience with Excel, and Eitan is irritated about people still not doing SQL jobs correctly in AlwaysOn Availability Groups. Relevant links: SQLBits Free Video…

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GPT-4o with Veronika Kolesnikova 50:03

2M ago50:03

50:03

Multi-modal is here and ready to use! Carl and Richard talk to Veronika Kolesnikova about what she has seen in the latest OpenAI model. Multi-modal refers to GPT-4o's ability to work with text, audio, images, and more and respond in kind! Veronika talks about tackling interesting visual problems with GPT-4o - like summarizing graphs or creating new…

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Ridiculous Online Exercises EXPOSED!!! (Uncovering so-called 'alternate' exercises) 14:27

2M ago14:27

14:27

Michele will "uncover" some issues with suggested alternate exercises. This is the common lure programs will use to "get you in the door". However, your body will NOT get the result. Most programming out there on social media does NOT understand proper biomechanics or functional anatomy. These are things you need a professional for to make the most…

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NGINX as a Service with Buu Lam 35:01

2M ago35:01

35:01

More application platform pieces make your life better! While at Build in Seattle, Richard sat down with Buu Lam of F5 to discuss F5's latest offering, NGINX as a Service in Azure. Buu discussed how F5's products have evolved to run in the cloud, not just on their hardware. While you could run them as virtual machines or containers, providing them …

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CosmosDB and AI with Mark Brown 54:33

3M ago54:33

54:33

CosmosDB makes ChatGPT fast! While at Build in Seattle, Carl and Richard chatted with Mark Brown about CosmosDB's role in AI. Mark talks about how ChatGPT switched over to CosmosDB early on - when the number of users started to climb, database performance became essential, and CosmosDB was there. Today, many AI-centric CosmosDB features exist, like…

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The Hard Part of Machine Learning with Lynn Langit 35:08

3M ago35:08

35:08

What are the hard parts of machine learning? Richard chats with Lynn Langit about her work helping the Mayo Clinic improve patient outcomes using machine learning to understand patient data better. Lynn talks about the challenges of multi-modal data analytics - taking all the different data collected from a patient, like an X-ray or video, along wi…

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MAUI and Blazor with Beth Massi 45:00

3M ago45:00

45:00

What's up with MAUI and Blazor? Carl and Richard chat with Beth Massi about the latest MAUI, including the new webview available on GitHub that lets you embed an existing web page into your MAUI app. Beth talks about making apps the way you want to - with a mobile, web, or desktop focus - or making them all! Mixing Blazor and MAUI means you can ste…

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Microsoft Defender for Cloud with Yuri Diogenes 36:52

3M ago36:52

36:52

Have you rolled out Microsoft Defender for Cloud? Richard chats with Yuri Diogenes about the bundle of tools under the Defender for Cloud moniker. Yuri describes Defender for Cloud as a Cloud-Native Application Protection Platform (CNAPP). This Gartner term covers the various elements that go into a cloud-native application, including APIs, servers…

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NDepend

3M ago

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A dive into an amazing program for developers: NDependBy Jesse Liberty

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GitHub Evolving with Damian Brady 48:00

3M ago48:00

48:00

GitHub is about so much more than source control! While at Build, Carl and Richard chatted with Damian Brady about all the great things coming out of GitHub over the past few years, including Copilot and now Copilot Workspaces. The conversation digs into how large language models are changing how you write code and some idea of what things could be…

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